State legislatures cannot create obstacles that make it tough for people whose criminal convictions have been overturned to recover fines or restitution damages they have already paid, according to an April 19 U.S. Supreme Court decision.

By Christopher Zoukis Last week, I summarized a report on the prisoners who were exonerated last year of major crimes for which they had been incarcerated, often for decades. Issued by the University of Michigan Law School’s National Registry of Exonerations, the report is the latest annual summary tracking trends in this often ignored area. […]

In 2015, the highest-ever number of convicted prisoners were exonerated of the crimes for which they were incarcerated, according to a recent report by the National Registry of Exonerations, a project run by the law school of the University of Michigan, which has tracked prisoner exonerations since 1989, the year of the first U.S. exoneration […]